When tweeting on a new blog post, would it be possible to make that tweet link back to the post in question? A cursory look on my part tells me “no”, but if you see a way, I think it would be a great addition to Twitter Tools.

This plugin sounds like its going to be pretty cool once its finished.

“I might add the ability to post to Twitter from the sidebar widget as well, if you are logged in as an admin.”

I acutally started modifying/combining a couple of existing plugins and adding an ajax style update to be used in a similar way to what you have described. The idea is too create something like the way you can update you’re status on Facebook.

[…] than actually doing work). Last time I tried installing add-ons to my personal blog, I tried the Twitter Tools plugin by alexking. This let me automatically publish a daily summary of tweets, a decision I have since […]

What I’d love to see on the AJAX front would be a tweet browser int he sidebar. Simple “previous” and “next” buttons that would replace the current tweet with the previous/next without reloading the page.

Would love to see option to automatically post the permalink back to the tweet along with the WP post, as well as info about/linkto the service the tweet was posted from (Ping.fm, Twitterific etc.). I have developed a strong principle of always linking back to the source, whatever I do, and as the info should be there, I imagine this is a small feature.

Now Twitter Tools strips the tweet of the username prefix, which is nice, but the username could also be a good place to put the permalink back to the tweet on Twitter, say Username: [tweet-content]

I really like that TT uses the accurate time posting of tweets, that it strips too long titles and adds the […], and that the text is retained as text in the blog post. I use another plugin which automatically transforms raw URL’s in WP to working links, so I like that the complete tweet is not made a hyperlink back to the source.

Another neat feature would be to automatically transform @username’s into working links which point to their respective user pages on Twitter.

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